domenica 30 gennaio 2011

‘Light and Dark’ is an eternal theme. It includes the concept of good and bad, bright and shade, shallow and deep. Light gives human beings the hope and Dark makes people despair. However without Dark, people can’t see the Light: they are like the Yin and Yang, restricting each other but can’t living alone.

venerdì 19 novembre 2010

For thousands of years, people used sundials to tell the time. The first sundials were used more than 3,500 years ago in Egypt.A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun.In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge, onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day.As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow-edge progressively aligns with different hour-lines on the plate.
Clic here to see a patent of a modern adjustable sundial.

sabato 13 novembre 2010

Church of the light (sometimes called "Church with Light") is the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church's main chapel. It was built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka, and it is one of the most famous design of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

The Church of the Light consists of three 5.9m concrete cubes (5.9m wide x 17.7m long x 5.9m high) penetrated by a wall angled at 15°, dividing the cube into the chapel and the entrance area. One indirectly enters the church by slipping between the two volumes, one that contains the Sunday school and the other that contains the worship hall. The benches, along with the floor boards, are made of re-purposed scaffolding used in the construction. A cruciform is cut into the concrete behind the altar, and lit during the morning (as it is facing east).

In Inuit mythology, Tulugaak was the creator of light. TheInuitare very tied to the past, trying to explain to some extent the existence of some creatures, such as the onset of light.

In the early times, there was only darkness; there was no light at all. At the edge of the sea a woman lived with her father. One time she went out to get some water. As she was scraping the snow, she saw a feather floating toward her. She opened her mouth and the feather floated in and she swallowed it. From that time she was pregnant.Then she had a baby. It's mouth was a raven's bill. The woman tried hard to find toys for her child. In her father's house was hanging a bladder that was blown up. Now the baby, whose name was tulugaak (Raven), pointed at it and cried for it. The woman took the bladder down from the wall and let the baby play with it. But in playing with it, he broke it. Immediately, it began to get light. Now there was light in the world, and darkness, too.